FTP upload to Sourceforge with PowerShell

The release system of Sourceforge.net requires to upload your files by FTP to upload.sourceforge.net. The process is basically a pure pain, especially for small files:

• sourceforge.net is slow, upload.sourceforge.net is slow too.


• you need to process your files by FTP whereas it could have been done much more easily through a simple web upload (at least for file that are less then 5MB which must account for 99% of the file released on sourceforge anyway).


• if you want to re-upload your file, then you cant do it by FTP; you need to go through the SF.net web UI: first release the uploaded file, then delete the released file and finally re-upload your file (the process is maddening).

Anyway, here below is a PowerShell script that I am using to upload files by FTP to sourceforge.net. Save this script into ftp2sf.ps1, then from the PowerShell command-line, just type .\ftp2sf.ps1 'myPackage.zip' and your file will get upload to sourceforge.net. Then, go through the sourceforge release interface and complete the process.

# ftp2sf.ps1 - FTP UPLOAD TO UPLOAD.SOURCEFORGE.NET
#
# Author: Joannès Vermorel
# http://www.vermorel.com/
#
# USAGE:
# .\ftp2sf.ps1 'myLocaFile'

Param( $UploadFilePath = "filename" );

$FtpUploadCommand = "PUT `"" + $UploadFilePath + "`"";

$FtpCommandFilePath = [System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath("FTPCommand.tmp");

$FtpCommands = @( "anonymous", "myemail@example.com", "cd incoming" , "bin", "quote pasv", $FtpUploadCommand, "quit" );

$FtpCommand = [String]::Join( "`r`n", $FtpCommands );

set-content $FtpCommandFilePath $FtpCommand;

ftp "-s:$FtpCommandFilePath" upload.sourceforge.net;

remove-item $FtpCommandFilePath;

Comments

[Einstieg in die PowerShell &ra]

[...] Das Script basiert auf einem Beispiel von Joannes Vermorel. Ich habe es nur ein wenig erweitert. Das fertige Script sieht nun wie folgt aus. Es benötigt lediglich einen Parameter: up oder down. [...]

[Nino.Mobile : [name:CINNUGPowe]

[...] Q: How do I FTP from PowerShell?A: Options:- Take a look at this script by Joannes Vermorel.- NetCmdlets  http://www.nsoftware.com/powershell- Take a look at this script posted to the microsoft.public.windows.powershell newsgroup [...]

[Jim Phillips]

What does the line - $FtpCommand = [String]::Join( “`r`n”, $FtpCommands ); do?

[joannes]

The [String]::Join commands adds line returns at the end of each command.